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Severe iron intoxication treated with exchange transfusion
An 18-month-old previous healthy girl who had ingested 442 mg elemental iron/kg was admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit. The child was treated with gastric lavage, whole bowel irrigation and intravenous deferoxamine. After 2 h of standard therapy serum iron had risen threefold to 1362 µg/dl...
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Language: | Inglês |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2009
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| Online Access: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029243/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21687019 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr.01.2009.1445 |
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